I have a question to all interstate bowlers that have bowled in the Melbourne Cup for the last 5 years.
What is it about the event that keeps you coming back?
A lot of this topic seems to revolve around the fact that entry fees are too high. Fair enough, i can understand that. Melbourne Cup has taken a bit of a beating in regards to this over the last few years, yet we still seem to be able to get at least 115-120 bowlers turn up to it.
Now if memory serves me correct, both the SA mens and womans events at the start of the year only got a combined entry list of 86 i think. So this is why i am curious about why everyone picks the Melbourne Cup to bowl in. Is it the prize structure, the fact that it is on a long weekend, the history of the event, the way it is run etc.
I guess the same goes for the Vic150. Why do they fill that up with no problems, yet even when the woman are given their own divisions and cheaper entry into some of the double ranked events with their own prize structure, they never seem to fill more than 30 entries?
This isn't a sarcastic question, it is just purely a question as to the inconsistancy with the answers that promoters gets as to why people do or don't turn up to events.
What is it about the event that keeps you coming back?
A lot of this topic seems to revolve around the fact that entry fees are too high. Fair enough, i can understand that. Melbourne Cup has taken a bit of a beating in regards to this over the last few years, yet we still seem to be able to get at least 115-120 bowlers turn up to it.
Now if memory serves me correct, both the SA mens and womans events at the start of the year only got a combined entry list of 86 i think. So this is why i am curious about why everyone picks the Melbourne Cup to bowl in. Is it the prize structure, the fact that it is on a long weekend, the history of the event, the way it is run etc.
I guess the same goes for the Vic150. Why do they fill that up with no problems, yet even when the woman are given their own divisions and cheaper entry into some of the double ranked events with their own prize structure, they never seem to fill more than 30 entries?
This isn't a sarcastic question, it is just purely a question as to the inconsistancy with the answers that promoters gets as to why people do or don't turn up to events.